Nuked Gingrich, Part 7

Well, we've discovered where Newt Gingrich is leaking campaign money like a sieve from.

Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign is over $1 million in debt, nearly half of which -- $451,946 -- is attributable to his preference for private jets.

That's how much the Gingrich campaign owes to Moby Dick Airways, the same company he used for flights paid for by his former 527 group, American Solutions. In April, May and June of last year, American Solutions gave $677,539 to Moby Dick Airways.

Adding in the $41,453 and $10,478 payments Gingrich's campaign already made to Moby Dick in April and May brings the total amount he paid the private plane company over the half-million mark. His list of campaign expenditures includes 30 separate travel-related payments, most of them for thousands of dollars each.

For comparison, Dave Weigel looks at the travel expenses of the Tim Pawlenty campaign, which total just $11,554.90 to airline companies, most of them commercial airliners.

No wonder Newt is so eager to keep tax deductions for private jets.  He apparently uses them to go freakin' everywhere.

Hey folks, can we stop pretending Newt Gingrich's campaign is anything other than "completely over" now?